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State of pandemic: Coping with daily change
The morning of March 4, 2020, was a bit different from my usual workday routine, although it didn’t start off that way. When my alarm sounded at 0500, I said my morning prayers, got...
Nursing fiction?
Imagine the year is 2030...
Casey, a Complex Labor and Delivery nurse, notices that her patient, a young mother, rarely makes eye contact while holding her new infant son. Instead, she spends hours on Facebook...
Coping with emotional stress
Supporting nurses through unprecedented times.
Takeaways:
In a survey with 18,000 respondents, 79% of nurses rated themselves at high risk for workplace stress.
High nurse burnout rates are linked to decreased job satisfaction, increased turnover,...
Nurses focus on pandemic challenges while looking to the future
The current and ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racism dominated discussions at the 2020 American Nurses Association (ANA) Membership Assembly, which was held virtually for the first time.
More than 400 representatives...
Nurse turnover: Understand it, reduce it
What can employers do to increase nurse retention?
Takeaways:
Because of the stress involved in nursing, many healthcare organizations have high rates of nurse turnover.
The cost of nurse turnover can have a huge impact...
Creating a healthy working environment is every nurse’s responsibility
How clinical faculty and practicing clinicians can collaborate to help students learn professionalism.
Takeaways:
Professionalism creates the foundation for civil and healthy work environments.
According to the American Nurses Association, a healthy work environment is...
Keeping well during COVID-19 pandemic
One nurse’s story.
When Sarah Oerther, MSN, MEd, RN, FRSPH, was selected for ANA Enterprise’s Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™ (HNHN) #healthynurse spotlight in late 2019, she had no idea how her wellness would be tested...
We shall remember
On July 29, 2020, the New York Times reported that at least 150,909 people have died of COVID-19 in the U.S. since the pandemic gained a foothold in mid-March. There is another ongoing count...
Health and happiness depend on each other
New research published in Psychological Science provides new evidence to the claim that a happy outlook can have an impact on your physical health.
The study, conducted by researchers from Georgetown University, the University of...
How to manage COVID-19-related emotional distress
Today, there are over 15 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 624,000 deaths worldwide. In the U.S., the country with the most cases, there have been almost 4 million confirmed cases and more than 143,000 deaths—numbers which,...
Nurses need to heal: Addressing COVID-19 related burnout
From inadequate personal protective equipment (PPE) to caring for sicker patients, the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the United States healthcare system in an unprecedented way. Under normal circumstances, nursing and physician burnout affects up...
Why exercise is so important during menopause
According to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s National Nursing Workforce Study, about 91% of RNs are women, and their average age is 50. In fact, almost half of the full-time and...
Nurse preceptors and new graduate success
Use these strategies to enhance new nurse clinical reasoning skills.
Takeaways:
The stress associated with the transition from nursing school to clinical practice can lead many new graduates to leave the profession.
A hospital transition-to-practice...